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[โ€“] RickRussell_CA@lemmy.ml 36 points 8 months ago (8 children)

What amazes me are the number of companies selling "lifetime" VPN service or "lifetime" cloud storage service with a straight face.

Like... that is TRANSPARENTLY a scam. You're literally gonna sell lifetime licenses to people with more money than common sense, until the entire system is overloaded, then just go out of business.

[โ€“] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I just bought a lifetime subscription to Nebula (a YouTube-like service akin to a co-op for content creators) and my rationale was

  • Lifetime costs the same as ten years of annual priced subscriptions
  • It will be cheaper than that due to inflation
  • The service has been operating for 5 years, so it's likely to last at least 10 more
  • The service is philosophically opposed to the sort of place that may try to acquire it

Other stuff, no thanks. Too many practical products (as opposed to entertainment ones) have a great supply of methods to screw you and a great desire to screw you.

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